You helped me out so much as I had never heard of HTML in those days. Remember if you did bold, it would go into the next post if you were not careful. I still laugh at that and then some techie would come along and try to figure out how we could be dumb to not to do a close tag. Without you and others, I wouldn’t know HTML today and be able to use it on my blog where they tell you that you don’t need it. Bet me!

This system has a long legacy and changing it in any radical way would be very destabilizing. And there is no purely information/communications reason to change much.

Even embedding videos is not necessary in that any video on youtube, for example, is only one click away through an URL that the reply editor will format for you without HTML. You can always post a pic with your link if you want to show the opening screen.

I see no real *reason* to change things drastically. There are a lot of details I'd change but I'm sure others would like them to remain the same so - there you have it.

On FR we have folks who trash lots of Republicans for not being conservative enough: Bush, Medved, Gingrich, even Cheney. Eventually, nobody is good enough. It makes you wonder what the true goal of these perfect conservatives is, really.

There is much to be said for

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.It must represent certain fundamental beliefswhich must not be compromisedto political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."RONALD REAGAN

There are "certain fundamental beliefs" which are the core of conservatism. For example...

"The basis of conservatism is a desirefor less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedomand this is a pretty general descriptionalso of what libertarianism is."RONALD REAGAN

But hey, if you don't enforce any minimum standard of what constitutes conservatism, then you will support practically anything, in essence standing for nothing.

No, youre right, its much better to have Ozero as the commander in chief. Ill let my brother know. And my friend in Iraq. Maybe you could explain it to them. How its better to have the worst possible president than one who isnt a perfect conservative.

While you're at it, please let them know that even though the last wonder-lust was Republican and did 'love the military' he didn't bother to lift a finger against Iran or Syria when they trained, armed, and deployed terrorists into Iraq. Need I remind you of who those terrorists victims were in many instances? How about the upgraded flack jackets? What about the new upgraded personel carriers? Did our guy do all that he could? In a word, no.

He was just too busy doubling the budget of the Department of education in his first three years, and pushing through the largest single Great Society program in 40 years.

Until our populace gets tired of the leftists, we're going to have them with us. The best we can hope for is to out them for who they are, and change directions in this natioin. We simply cannot do that by voting in people who claim to be conservative but drag their feet. I spent the last eight years trying to talk sense into 'Conservaives' on this fourm, hoping Bush would get it. He never did. He was defended to the bitter end. Nothing he did was worthy of him being taken to the wood shed over.

Well, Bush was bad enough. I will never sign on to the likes of John McCain to lead this nation. While our troops risk their lives on foreign soil, he would be using our borders to further his globalist agenda. He would be whittling away at our military as surely as Obama is. He's happy enough calling them tortureres.

When McCain worked with George Soros and Teressa Heinz Kerry to form a foundation, I promised myself I would never support him. When he sided against our POWs, their families and the military to grant Vietnam normalized status, I said to myself, this man is evil. I will never support him. I have a list of forty to fifty things that reveal to me that I can never support this man. He is EVIL.

On FR we have folks who trash lots of Republicans for not being conservative enough: Bush, Medved, Gingrich, even Cheney. Eventually, nobody is good enough. It makes you wonder what the true goal of these perfect conservatives is, really.

Well, I know it's a quaint concept, but perhaps they want people who truly believe what they profess to believe. Did you read Gingrich's latest diatribe on the forum today? Have you listened to Medvid over the years? Medvid means well, but he's lost in the ozone. He takes the wrong side on so many issues that it's a surprise when he doesn't. Every time I turn his show on, he convinces me I've come to the wrong place. Newt is now convinced that it's too much to think a right wing majority could win a national election.

As for Cheney, I've had some problems with him over the years. I would still probably vote for him.

Look, if these folks want to lead us, they need to think about what they say. It's not my fault they don't believe in Conservatism.

How many tenets of Conservatism am I supposed to dismiss so I can vote for a Democrat who only believes a couple of things I do?

Sorry, we're so much farther left today than we were under Reagan, there's no denying that going along to get alone has brought us to where we are. At some point we must take a stand or we'll be standing in the middle of leftist central as happy as a lark to be there.

Not me today. Not me tomorrow. If you think that makes me a leftist operative, then that's just sad..

I very much agree with that viewpoint, although adding a Rich Text Editor wouldn't hurt or change the basic function or layout of the site. It would make posting a lot less tedious, though.

John Robinson is the tech guy (that's his screen name, too) and he, I'm sure, would be open to your suggestions.

Again, I am not an insider. I'm just blathering my own experiences here on FR. It is a great site, accomplishes what it intends to accomplish and my vote is for the slow, evolutionary approach and not a revolutionary "upgrade" that doesn't improve fundamental communications abilities.

Even then, I agree that a nice editor would be an improvement if they can work it out. And fix the search, like others have suggested.

a good drinking song would be ok.....Just take a chug everytime BO uses the words I,my and me.... He's on TV enough and one should be drunk after the first paragraph.....Should keep the threads interesting!

Gosh, I post some pretty involved table graphics with music linked and have no problem. I've not seen another forum setup that I like as well, guess I'm just used to doing the html and don't understand what I'm missing?

You know, there are a good many people here who don’t understand this concept. There are times when I am guilty of this infraction, but I try to have a good reason and do it very seldom.

I know folks who support guys like McCain mean well. I can understand where they are coming from. It’s just sad to see what length’s they’ll go to to support a guy with an (R).

I once asked someone if there was a political race between Satan’s Lt. and the devil himself, who should we vote for. The obvious answer was neither. Oh I was assured that Satan’s top Lt. was the go to guy. Nevermind he would be implementing Satan’s plan 100%. He was better...

I found this place in '03 when my son went to Iraq the 1st time. I was desperate to find any information as to what was going on over there. I found the replies to certain posts most helpful, and grew to love and understand the FReepers.

I didn't join right away, mostly just "feeling out" this place, but I get almost all my good information, (and laughs), in the replies to posts.

One thing I like is it is easy to freep on an iPhone. It is tough to post on forums that have wysiwyg editors, and impossible to use Flash based forums on it. Simplicity has it’s advantages (freeping on iPhone now).

You must have standards of some sort to determine if you support such a person or not, right? The same is true of the posters you criticize. They see the wrong in what an otherwise “stand up” guy is doing and pillory the guy for claiming they are the “conservative standard bearer” (as McCain did at the Conservative Union meeting last year) or for not following general conservative principals (like Romney with "RomneyCare" (who I had donated money to, along with McCain, both at key times to help)). I held my nose and did the best that I could at that time.

However, I always stood against the wrong in both people and their positions. You should support that berating of those who support wrong.

I assume you would say that you would not, in any palpable way support such a rabbi and would, in fact, seek to have him put in jail.

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posted on 10/26/2009 6:51:06 PM PDT
by ConservativeMind
(I love it every time a POS dies at the hands of a victim.)

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